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Would you like to learn how to add cute illustrations to your photos? Perhaps to make your blog post shine! Or perhaps and easy way to make Birthday cards or invitations? Do you love cute illustrations and can't even draw stick men? I have the solution for you and the best part is that you don't even have to know how to draw or have illustrator.

Have you heard of DINGBATS?

Basically, it functions just like a font but it's something other than a letter or number. You download it like a font and use it like you would any font in any program.

You can see the original photo... When I saw that face I just knew what I wanted to do- add some clouds and raindrops. I really didn't have time to draw my own and honestly my drawing skills are let just say not great. So I remembered I had downloaded a cute dingbat / font that would do just the trick. It is called

. All I did was type letters A & B for the clouds, then I typed C- a few times for the raindrops and placed them where I wanted. I used photoshop- so I was able to erase a few of the raindrops, but first I had to merge and flatten my text layers to do that. I added a title and that was it.

Create greeting cards, birthday invitations, whatever your heart desires! Here you can see that you can use different colours and the variety that comes with every dingbat font you download. Guess what this one is called?

You can google what you are looking for, for example halloween dingbats, food dingbat, animal or weather dingbats and you will not believe the variety you will find- from cute to sophisticated. The best part is that you can get most of them for free.